How to Manage Scope Creep
Overview
Scope Creep Survival Toolkit: How to Control Project Changes Without Becoming “the Difficult PM’”, the session will focus on practical approaches around leadership, governance, and balancing partnership with control. This won't be a change control process lecture.
We will go through five survival skills: spotting “scope creep in disguise”; replacing reflexive “no” with “yes, and here’s the impact/trade-off”; setting decision rights and tolerances before conflict occurs; having difficult stakeholder conversations while preserving trust; and escalating without appearing obstructive supported by simple techniques such as “What are we stopping to make room for this?”, consequence based change conversations, and documented decisions. This fits existing governance guidance particularly well: consult affected stakeholders before proposing change, establish clear escalation thresholds and decision rights, and keep governance simple.
We will be keeping this session away from the current AI fatigue and focusing instead on practical human and soft skills, particularly where tools cannot replace the human side of leading projects.
Learning Outcomes
- Sharing how we focus our PM's from task management to relationships.
- Sharing how we get our clients to actually buy into the work and own their own change.
- A checklist to spot hidden scope creep.
- Tips we give our junior PM's for difficult stakeholder discussions.
OUR SPEAKER
Ryan Darby
Vision Lead | Sensei Project Solutions
At Sensei, Ryan is focused on giving back to clients and the industry, by helping clients with their vision, defining a roadmap to assist them in how they think about work and their project and portfolio management tools. The focus is increasingly on AI within the project management space, including research into how to utilise AI at Sensei and within project and portfolio management solutions.
Linkedin: Ryan Darby
Ashleigh Jackson
Delivery Manager | Sensei Project Solutions
Ashleigh is a driven, adaptable, and proactive Project Lead, with over 15 years’ experience in Project Management within a range of industries with extensive vendor and IT experience. For the past six years, Ashleigh has managed and delivered end to end implementations for Leisure, Case Management and PPM software solutions. Ashleigh heads up the Project Management team within the Commercial sector at Sensei. Ashleigh is PMI and Prince2 certified.
Linkedin: Ashleigh Jackson
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